Winter's Chill
- Mana cost
- {X}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Ice Age #107 (rare)
- Price
- $1.61 USD
Cast this spell only during combat before blockers are declared.
X can't be greater than the number of snow lands you control.
Choose X target attacking creatures. For each of those creatures, its controller may pay {1} or {2}. If that player doesn't, destroy that creature at end of combat. If that player pays only {1}, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this combat.
Winter's Chill has 1 printing, first in Ice Age (1995). EDHREC ranks it #17,860 among Commander cards. It appears most in Heidar, Rimewind Master decks (32 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Winter's Chill most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Heidar, Rimewind Master: 32 decks
Often played with Winter's Chill
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : The payments are made when the spell resolves. The three options are: pay {2} to let creature act as normal, pay {1} to have creature neither deal or receive damage, or pay nothing and the creature does deal and receive damage but it will be destroyed at end of combat.
- : If a turn has multiple combat phases, this spell can be cast during any of them as long as it’s before the beginning of that phase’s Declare Blockers Step.